Packed both with creative kills (including at least one that left the audience screaming in sympathy) and knowing winks to the audience about the genre, it’s the exact opposite of the often ponderous “elevated horror” subgenre. Citing films like The People Under the Stairs, Tales From the Hood, and Candyman (whose legendary star Tony Todd serves as this movie’s “horror host,” Titus Darq) as touchstones, first time director Bill Posley serves up a Halloween candy bucket worth of B-movie fun.īitch Ass is the tale of a group of low-level criminals who break into the wrong home and find themselves at the mercy of a board game obsessed murderer in a mask. But Bitch Ass touts its titular villain as “the first Black serial killer ever to wear a mask,” even as it pays tribute to Black horror movies of decades past. He too claims to have rented the home, and given that it’s storming outside… he invites her in.Ī brand new masked slasher killer movie is reason enough for celebration. Our newfound “sharing economy” turns into nightmare scenario though when a young woman named Tess (Georgina Campbell) arrives in the dead of night to a house she’s rented, only to find a man (Bill Skarsgård) already there. Barbarian was originally marketed around a quirk of modern living (AirBnBs and other forms of home-sharing). What better place to begin this list than with what many of us consider to be the most ferocious surprise of the year-it’s certainly one of the most entertaining. Which is all to say that it has been a superb year for horror movies.īelow are the ones we suspect are the best. We’ve also been thrilled by high-concept shocks like the twisty Barbarian. From the year beginning with a robust relaunch of the Scream franchise to its ending, where the horror-comedy-satire amalgamation of The Menu won audiences over twice, once in theaters and again on streaming, we’ve seen repeated testimonials to the fact audiences like being scared-and they don’t necessarily care if the movie has a colon, numeral, or hyphen in the title.Īlong the way, we’ve seen some genuinely nervy and daring attempts to push the boundaries of cinematic dread, be it in the art house, a la Speak No Evil, or the multiplex, courtesy of Smile. While the past 12 months saw industry trades choked with grim or despairing reports on the box office of original movies and new ideas, the news surrounding chillers has been strangely sunny and full of cheer.
It feels important to note that after a year like 2022.
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